Our Team

John Vasquez

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

John Vasquez has built a reputation in creating strategic and capital plans for enterprise platforms, he has combined his background and experience to design his Activist Investor approach. John has 33 years of experience in the banking and capital markets sectors, both as a principal and strategic consulting for buy-side and sell-side strategies. His investment experience and partnering with world-class management teams to make equity investments in situations where there is an identifiable opportunity to significantly enhance a company's value by unlocking hidden or unseen value for all stakeholders.

Patrick Wieland

COO (Chief Operations Officer)

Patrick Wieland has spent 20 years of his career helping SMB’s achieve success through strategic planning and execution. His focus has been on aligning human capital management with strategy. Patrick has found companies often times may have the best laid plans that often go to waste because they do not have the right accountability, leadership development, and execution of planning to execute their goals and vision”.

Patrick has had the privilege to help companies in a variety of industries. His experience has taken him to industries like wholesale fashion sunglass company, Office moving and storage, ecommerce medical device, dental prosthesis firm, office supply, and commercial cleaning.

In the last 5 years Patrick has been assisting in the development of a commercial print and mail company. He was strategically involved in taking this organization from just under $1 million in annual revenue to over $3.5 million. During that time, his work included M&A deals, implementing strong performance management system, production efficiencies and human capital alignment to the strategy.

Shara Hubert

CMO (Chief Marketing Officer)

Shara Hubert has a true passion for the business community, and over a decade of experience in Sales, Management, Operations, and Marketing. With close to 10 years serving in the print and mail marketing industry, as well as housing and construction experience, she brings to the table a wealth of knowledge in the operations, sales and marketing functions within similar companies. Experience with M&A transactions in the business and industry also lend to showing an ability for successful deal close and change management, within varying sizes of companies. She has a successful track record in helping companies more finely tune their business processes and increase both revenue and ROI through Operational and Marketing improvement.

Shara not only has a passion for running a business and sales organization efficiently and profitably but is further involved in the community running an executive connections organization that utilizes unique events to make more effective connections. She enjoys working with the entrepreneurial community and helping them connect the dots for their businesses and communities.

William Romero

SPM (Strategic Portfolio Manager)

Will Romero serves as Strategic Portfolio Manager and is an experienced financial analyst. He has specialized in financial analysis, capital prep, data management, and project management. Will has spent several years managing and analyzing financials' of a vast number of businesses in many different sectors. This can be through forecasting, budgeting, modeling, and analyzing risks of projects and decision making with in businesses. However, Will's true passion lies in helping businesses full potential be realized. Will works with businesses to prep what they need for capital investments and manage these transactions to close; from private equity investment, SBA financing, & bridge financing. Will uses his BS in Finance & Economics to find paths to level up businesses within the numbers and support executive teams.

Nic Beal

Director of Development

Nic Beal has over 15 years of professional experience in the real estate investment and lending industry. He has been the founder and principal in real estate investment companies and has been involved in millions of dollars of real estate investments during that time frame. Nic has experience in many facets of real estate investment including underwriting, raising money, investor relations, transaction coordination, construction management, disposition coordination. He is currently in collaboration with the CEO, as the Director of Development. He articulates and implements a strategic vision for the company that focuses on effective development growth; oversees implementation of the strategic plan in coordination with the executive team, assess and acquire new partnerships to grow and sustain the organization, manage special pilot projects, and serve in a high-profile external role representing at key functions, to funders and the media.

As the Director of Development, he oversees a portfolio that includes: 1) strategic planning; 2) communications; 3) high-level partnerships; and 4) special projects. The PM will maintain strong connections to the entire executive team in order to introduce new partnerships, transition special projects for longer term sustainability.

Joella Rodarte-Vasquez

Project Assistant/Licensed Realtor

Joella has a decade of experience in commercial real estate building teams and closing over 2,000,000 SF representing tenants, landlords, and investors. Joella has worked under a wide range of minority business development, community development with multiple Office of Economic Development, Minority Owned Banks and financial services that provide 504 & 7a SBA loans. Joella has a passion to groom and establish a service for the underserved markets with representation. She has had successful contract negotiations with focus on delivering creative strategies within her ecosystem of developers, architects, and general contracting services.

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Joe Manzanares

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